food editors
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Food Journalism Talk at the Matheson History Museum
I am looking forward to talking about newspaper food editors at the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville on Saturday. It is based on the material I taught in my Florida food journalism history class at Rollins College this month.
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History of Washington State Food Editors
I am going over the page proofs for the upcoming “Recipes & Reporting” for Columbia Magazine. The article is about the food editors from Washington State; all of the editors used pen names which made the research challenging. The article will be published this summer.
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The Food Section: UCF Book Festival
I had a great time talking about The Food Section at the 2015 UCF Book Festival. There was a great turnout and I signed a few books.
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The Food Section Talk at the UCF Book Festival
My talk about The Food Section is a week from today at the UCF Book Festival.
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Clementine Paddleford & The Gasparilla Cookbook
I have been working on my paper for the Florida Conference of Historians about the Tampa Junior League and its publication, The Gasparilla Cookbook. The conference is less than 2 weeks away. First published in 1961, the cookbook has been a big success. After many reprintings, it celebrated its 50th birthday in 2011. Part of the success has been because of the coverage by newspaper food editor Clementine Paddleford. She did not typically write about cookbooks so this story was unique. Thanks to the archivist at Kansas State University who helped me find it.
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Great Food History Story in Austin American-Statesman
I truly appreciate this Austin American-Statesman story about my book The Food Section. A great lead: “Kimberly Wilmot Voss admits that her 2014 book “The Food Section” was motivated in part by spite. The University of Central Florida associate professor had long studied journalism history with a focus on women’s pages, whose coverage of the four F’s — family, food, fashion and finishing, called “soft news” — has long been dismissed among most journalism historians as unimportant or irrelevant.” I also loved this quote: “These women were considered nothing,” Voss says. “They were real journalists and home economists, but they certainly weren’t corrupt and they were nobody’s fool.” I also…
